Review of All the President's Men (1976) by Maria Z — 05 Feb 2011

"Objectivity", it's every journalist's moral dillema when they write the news. To write the truth and how it is and to be nonbias, but to be investigative. Watergate was a great example of true journalism because behind it all was two men and their newspaper who stood by and took all the hits the administration threw at.

When u write a story that criticizes the government then u find urself being called unpatriotic or untrustworthy to the public. The Film got me even deeper into its story and explained to me about all the innuendos, all the two blinks for yes or no, all the "off the record" sort of dirty work that Woodrow and his partener had to go through to prove their story was verifiable.

The environment and tone the movie presented was so hostile, which it probably was durring the time, and it showed how dangerous this story was. Hoffman and Redfords characters were not going to let this story fall because they did not want to settle "offical truth", they didnt want to sacrafice the truth just to meet a deadline.

Jason Robards character was deeper than I thought it would be and he brought character who didnt wish to reveal too much about himself, he is an editor of a major newspaper (Washington Post), so I can see how an interpretation like that would be accurate.

Hal Holbrrok, the ghostly figure kinown as "deep throat", only three scenes with him and I thought all of them were spellbinding to the point that I felt there was some shady things really happening, awesome job.

The truest movie out there about true journalism! A phenomenal film about true journalism! A movie not only telling us to "follow the money", but to also follow our own guts.